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Merely Players and The Silverton Mine go online

Here are eight reasons to catch Merely Players’ “Zoom Alice: A Wonderland Adventure for a Topsy Turvy World” before it disappears online by the end of Saturday, June 20. 1. A tigh...

DATE: Jun 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

In a topsy-turvy world: Merely Players offers a timely ‘Alice’

“We can wait to go back to an uncertain ‘normal’ or we can work with what is,” Mona Wood-Patterson said in a recent interview. Co-founder and artistic director of Merely Players,...

DATE: Jun 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Zoom Theater rides into summer

Two very different local theater companies are launching two projects in the next two weeks. Both companies appear to be on the same surreal wavelength as they conjure different virtual prod...

DATE: May 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

A rare tribute to a rare musician: Cellist Lynn Harrell dies and Carnegie Hall marks his passage

Acclaimed American cellist Lynn Harrell died on April 27. His sudden death was not associated with the coronavirus. The news sent shock waves throughout the world of international music. ...

DATE: May 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

Local live music events: Cancel, reschedule or postpone?

Cancel. Postpone. Reschedule. Pick your verb. Since the coronavirus has swept through our lives, area musicians and their organizations have chosen one of those three paths. ...

DATE: Apr 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

Concerts bloom first weeks of March

If February brought us a theater extravaganza, March looks like a musical feast. Last month, locals reorganized calendars to fit in four remarkable dramas. Merely Players’ imagin...

DATE: Mar 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Fort Lewis College stages a taut American drama

‘Two Rooms’ to be performed in Black Box Theatre

DATE: Feb 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

An inky-black comic opera for our time

The MET updates Roman skullduggery in ‘Agrippina’

DATE: Feb 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Common ground: New Face Productions brings global project to Durango

Wrapped around the Boys & Girls Club building on north Main Avenue is an unusual outdoor photographic exhibit. Large-format portraits of almost 100 Durango residents have been billboard-past...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts